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When couples face intimacy disconnection and mutual avoidance

My husband and I haven't had sex in four months and we're both pretending it's just a phase but we can feel each other's hurt and confusion building and neither of us knows how to bridge this gap without making it worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes the very tenderness that makes you want to protect each other becomes the barrier to reaching each other.

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